Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-01-14

IHeis a physician and banker, and also ed
\ itOr Of the Jerauld County journal. He
has been postmaster: Of Alpena, and coro-
ner OF Jeralld county. He has q wife and
two daughters.
cHAUNcEY B. HUBBARD,
of Raymond, Clark county, Ninth district,
was born in Monroe county, New York, in
1927. He came to Dakota in 1881 and has
! been devoted to agricultural pursuits. He
served in the war, holding the commission
of captain in the Seventy. fifth and One
Hundred and Fifty sixth Illinois regiments.
1 In politics a democrat, he will support
most of the Farmers Alliance measures.
He is married and has a family of three
children.
! | WILLIAM BERRY,
of Willow Lake, Clark county, Ninth dis
trict, was born in Illinois and is 46 years
old. He came to Dakota in 1882. This is
his first important public Office. He is a
farmer.
JOHN R. DUTCH,
OF Athol, Faulk county, Tenth district,
was born September z, 1880, in Missouri.
His business is that Of a tanner. He has
held quite number of minor offices here
tOfOre, and is "a member-elect to the So
called state legislature. He has dwelt in
Dakota three years; is married, and has
seven children.
| - ANDREW j. PRUITT,
of Gettysburg Potter county, Tenth
district, was born in Evansville, In
didna, in 1856. He came to Da-
kota from his native state three years ago.
He has never held any public position of
Importance previous to his present one.
| He is an attorney by profession. -,
ss~~' GEORGE c. CROSSE,
I of Highmore, Hyde county, Eleventh dis
| trict, is farmer. He was horn in Michi-
gan in 1913, where he resided until 1888,
when he came to Dakota and settled on his
| present farm in Hyde county. He is
| member of the board of county commits
| SiOners and represented his county in the
Sioux Falls 'state" constitutional conven-
| ton of 1885.
~'SF JAMES NJ MOORE,
of Clifton, Sully county, Eleventh district,
was born in Orange county, N. Y, in 1915,
| and is the oldest member in the body.
| When he was Is years of age he attended
| school at Cananduagua. N. Y. He removed
| to Wisconsin in 1886. He was a member
of the convention which framed the Wis
consin constitution in 1846. Was in the
| service three years during the late war. In
1857 he moved to Missouri, where he lived
fourteen years, and took an active part in
politics. He came to SuIly county in 1888,
and settled upon his present farm. Rep
resented his county in the state convention
at Huron in 1888.
| MARTIN II. COOPER,
of Watertown, Coddington county, Twelfth
district, was born in Michigan and is 3S
years of age. He came to the territory in
1881, and has been devoted to agricultural
| pursuits meanwhile. He comes with the
! determination to be one of the most active
! members of the legislature. He has a wife
| and four children.
CHARLES B. WILLIAMS,
of Wilmot, Grant county, Twelfth district,
| was born in Crawford county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1885, He came from his native
state to the territory in 1880. He is by oc-
| cupation merchant; is postmaster Of Will
| mot and member of the board of county
commissioners.
JAMES H. FLETCHER,
of Santa Clara, Brown county, Thirteenth,
district, is a native of Prince Edwards
Island, Canada, was born in November
184S. His parents were Americans. He
| had the advantage of an academic educa-
| ton, and was teacher for four years; was
editor OF the CharlOttetOWn Argus for ten
years, the last two years of the time being
| queens printer. In 1873 he emigrated to
Colorado during the I4eadville excitement,
and was taken in by the sharks who were
so abundant at that time. He still holds
his interest in the mines which are paying
him to some extent at present In 1883 he
entered into the mercantile business at
RrnWn RO1ntV O n
at Detroit township in 1884, where he still
resides, but is interested in a general store
at Newark, Marshall county. He has
always been staunch republican.
w. r. RUGGLEs,
OF Ipswich, Eimunds county, Thirteenth
district, was born in Carver county, MINI.
In 1857, received an academic education
| and course at civil engineering in the
university of Minnesota. He settled at
| Gary, Deuel. county, Dak., in 1871 and en-
tered into the drug business. He was for
a time resident of Day county, but for
the past fpur years, of Edmunds county.
Was clerk of the court for about two years,
| and has been editor OF the Ipswich Ga
| zette for four years past.
ALEXANDER S. STEWART,
of Hot Springs, Fall River county, Four
teenth district, was born in Indiana, Au-
gust 2, 1889. He came to Dakota nine years
ago. He was member of the Nebraska
territorial council, Nebraska state senate
and house and a member of its constitu-
tional convention in 1871. He was register
| of the United States land office at Dead
wood for four and half years. He is a
physician and editor of the Star at Hot
! Springs; is married and has three children.
JOHN WOLZMUTH,
| of Spearfsh. Lawrence county, Fourteenth
| district, was born in New York state in
| 1849. He came to Dakota from Iowa ten
| years ago. He was member Of the first
board Of commissioners of Lawrence coun-
| ty. He is miller and merchant
JOHN H. PATTEN,
of Carthage, Miner county, Sixth district,
was born in Southville, New York, in 1889.
In 1850, the family moved to Boone county.
Illinois, and in 1854 to DeKalb county,Hwhere
he still owns property. He came to Dakota
| from Illinois in 1882. He was member of
the Sioux Falls constitutional convention
| and is also member of the so called state
legislature. He is a farmer and man of
good deal Of business ability.
| A. NJ. COOK,
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